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To: ASH71
Perhaps but there will then come a time were we might have to leave this planet, and i for one hope we have some trained people to get us moving. As well as populations on the moon. 1 asteroid can ruin our whole day.

If you're seriously worried about an asteroid strike, maybe we should consider funding asteroid detection projects (currently underfunded) for 1/100th the cost of a manned mission. The cost of coming up with a way to deflect or destroy an incoming asteroid would still be a minuscule fraction of the cost of sending some clown to Mars, let alone actually putting a permanent population on the moon.

24 posted on 02/01/2007 10:13:43 AM PST by Alter Kaker ("Whatever tears one sheds, in the end one always blows one's nose." - Heine)
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To: Alter Kaker
Sure would be nice but i would rather have watch stations on the moon where the glow from Earth would not affect it. Being able to do something about it though would be nice with out Nasa... Destroying one is worse because then it becomes a shotgun blast. Deflecting it is what it is all about and gee whiz, NASA is working on that right now.
25 posted on 02/01/2007 10:16:38 AM PST by ASH71
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